Great series, I was only 12 years old when Battlestar Galactica aired and I was hooked. Now I’m 55 and I just bought the 1978 series on DVD and watched the whole thing in 3 days. This series will arrive next week, unfortunately I wasn’t a model kid so I missed a lot due to being grounded from the tv, who knew 39 years later that I’d get the last laugh on my parents lol.
A few years ago I went online and found every show my parents either grounded me from or just didn't allow me to watch....and binged them all. Turns out I didn't miss nearly as much as I thought I did back then. But now I know there were two different Darrens on Bewitched...lol
@@LSwick-ss6nm Way to go! I have watched stuff as an adult that my parents restricted me from and kind of found the same thing but also wondered why we were restricted from them. One example was we weren't allowed to watch anything Planet of the Apes related(Movies, TV series, etc.) yet we were allowed to watch Galactica, Star Trek reruns, Space:1999, and 50s/60s B movies. POTA wasn't "worse" than any of these in my opinion. Made no sense.
Yup, a great character actor in a bunch of stuff, was also in The Fifth Element, bit of a change from the usual heavy / bad guy he'd usually played! Sadly gone but glad to see he's not forgotten!
Love the design of the bikes. And the Vipers look absolutely awesome. Probably because they were designed by the same artist who designed the x-wing fighters in Star Wars. Ralph McQuarrie, an absolute genius.
@@JB9000x Yeah totally agree. The helmets did look too big and bulky. I always preferred the Helmets that the actors had in Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.
I knew McQuarrie designed much of BSG, but I forgot about these bikes. If he also designed the bikes, you can see similar geometry with the Imperial Speeder Bikes. Cool!
It's funny how with the passage of time it feels like you can see all the wires and strings holding it together , but I remember how cool it seemed watching it in the 1980's
Admittedly, Galactica 1980 wasn't the best Battlestar Galactica offering that ever happened, but as a kid I watched every single episode with total devotion, and when my best friend and I saw these bikes, we craved them like nobody else! I still think they look awesome, and I would happily drive one in a hot minute if offered the chance; doubly so if I could do it with the Colonial Warrior uniforms & helmets!
The only episode from Galactica 1980 I liked was 'The Return of Starbuck" I guess they changed Cy's voice a bit to be heard better to audience..but yeah when I was a kid the flying bikes I mainly remember.
This is the reason Galactica 1980 got cancelled. It was stupid. The original episodes were one of my favorite shows. The writing of this show is comparable to what Disney did to Star Wars. Plot holes and bad writing destroyed this show in 1980. Glad you liked it though , I stopped watching it after they ruined it.
Also there was one post-apocalyptic 'B' movie I saw him in where he was another good guy, but he still didn't get the girl, she fell for the male lead, some Hollywood pretty-boy and his character died saving the village, but I don't remember the name. You all will have to dig up his filmography to find out.
Hey that was Brion James as the biker troublemaker {"Willy") on the right side of the road. I forgot he was in this. He's been in so many things, one of those guys you recognize and has bits in EVERYTHING but you don't know who they are. He was in pretty much every show on TV at some point or another when I was growing up in the 70's and 80's. He's also been in over 100 movies according to wiki, one of those guys who probably never turned down a role. Been in a lot of crap movies but some very good ones too, like Blade Runner. I was trying to remember where I knew him from in a favorite movie after seeing this and it finally came to me...he was General Munro in the Fifth Element. I got to thinking I don't recall seeing him in anything since...the Fifth Element came out in '97, he died in '99 at only 54, sadly. RIP. Thanks for all the interesting characters.
Blade Runner v. Total Recall; On the other side was {"Donzo"} who played the Burly Miner in Total Recall (1990) [he was on the train after Mars Immigration] and played along side Michael Ironside (also in Total Recall) in V
a guy named Rick Cornhour ( may have misspelled his last name ) was my good friend and mentor on working on bikes. he had a photo album of him and others building those bikes and some of the bikes that were in the movie (Any which way you can) sadly he passed away in early 2015 from cancer. but its nice to see that people still remember his work
I've watched Philo and Clyde quite a bit since I was a kid...but.... If you could give us any clue on how to build those colonial viper bikes... man... I got the money now. I might just have to have one
@@somemedic all I can say is. I believe he said they were either Honda or kawasaki dirt bikes and the studio had them create fiberglass parts all over them. If I can remember anything else I will let you know
Back then this was cutting edge special effects, the special effects in the first Star Wars movie wasn’t a lot better and it was a big Hollywood production. Just out of curiosity do you remember BJ & The Bear, that series and the movie Convoy made me go into trucking when I became an adult, God I wish I had been a smarter kid lol.
Most old TV shows and Movies look corny and campy compared to modern productions. What we once thought was amazing later doesn’t look so polished. But it’s still fun to revisit the old shows once and a while out of nostalgia.
This scene was cut wasaaaay to soon. The very next thing to happen was Poncherello came up next to them on his flying CHiP bike. “Do you know how fast you were flying?”
There was a scene with the bikes in which they were chased by CHP officers but then launched into the air and one of them said something like "this never happens to those two guys on TV."
This cut is not from "Battlestar Galactica". A massive write-in campaign began upon the cancellation of the original Battlestar Galactica 1979 so ABC contacted TV-producer Glen A. Larson who modified a less expensive format spin-off: "Galactica 1980"
I used to watch the show when I was a child and it was first run on the television. I haven't known about these bikes until January 1st 2022 and I have never seen this episode!
@@Chanticlair47 interesting point. I wonder what other Earth viruses that the Colonials would've completely lacked immunity to? Stuff like measles, influenza, smallpox, etc.
I didn't know what to make of Galactica 1980 when it first aired, but I watched with my parents as faithfully as we could, given how it skipped around. BSG Classic was great. BSG 1980 was, well, a mixed bag. The bikes were fun, if a little iffy. -- Funny, I can't remember if Troy or Dillon was supposed to be the grown-up version of Boxes. I'll have to do a rewatch of both shows. -- I loved the old BSG and grew to love the BSG Reboot.
For some reason that I can't remember now, the 80's movies and TV shows were all about portraying bikers as klutzy assclowns that always ended up on their butts with wrecked bikes every time they hassled someone. LOL
There was a TV movie version called Conquest of the Earth that was made by cobbling together parts of this first episode and The Night The Cylons Landed that got a VHS release too before the complete show got a legit DVD release in 2007.
3:11 that last stutman, who hit the curb and flew over the handlebars ... he landed okay-ish, but his backseat passenger ... wow, that landing is going to require painkillers
@@ihl8608 Thank you. This 3 parter was actually not bad per se. The kid crap that followed was garbage. Thankfully Return of Starbuck finished this show off on a high note.
I liked it but I was a little kid, couldn’t read or write (not from a English native country) but I liked the visuals, the bikes and the robots and their voices.
Classic, vintage, still awesome to watch now as an adult as a 70s kid i can speak for all of us 70s kids 70s, 80s, 90s were the most memorable years of my childhood the things we have experienced now we wouldnt comprehend or begin to understand how times and technology have changed over the years. Never undestood why the new Battlestar series didnt have lazer weapons in space really mind boggling why not. Would you use an automatc rifle or a lazer weapon against a mechanical 8ft tall robot? LMAO!🤣
Have to admit, I loved those turbo cycles (that’s what I call them) despite Galactica 1980 was a far cry from the original series! But they had the story of a lifetime if they used their heads and came up with a storyline that the pyramids in Egypt was a tie to Kobol and wrote a storyline about it! They could have saved the series if some of the writers had an imagination!
man if i had the cash id have those custom built.... I remember the night this aired.... i was 8 yrs old staying at my grandma's and i was blown away ! they got flying Bikes!!!
Glen A Larson was the master of cool ideas, that didn't really make sense. They had an appeal to younglings, but they were challenging to seasoned ones. Who hasn't wanted to show off a flying vehicle in traffic & cause comical accidents, without anyone getting seriously hurt? Though 1980 wasn't a high point, the bikes were cool. They were one reason, I never accepted Megaforce. Their bikes paled in comparison.
Watching this gave me such severe autism that I quit my job and am re-enrolling in Kindergarten to try to rebuild my brain from scratch. Hopes are dim. Pray for me.
